[AMP-L] Surgeon Hopes to Make Phantom Pain a Thing of the Past

[Wayne Renardson]

via KSL Utah:

Amputation is one of the oldest known medical procedures and has a 
long history in many parts of the world as a punishment for crimes.  

Roman encyclopedist Aulus Celsus published the first written account 
of medical amputations in his work De Medicina, in A.D. 47. Fictional 
written accounts date back to at least 1800 B.C., in India.  

Anthropologists and archeologists, via human remains and cave 
paintings, believe amputations may have been performed to appease the 
gods as far back as 36,000 years ago.

The rest of the story, with photos & illustration, here:

https://tinyurl.com/2659frjl

Wayne R.